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Aptasia Zapper?

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 2:26am CST by Pufferpunk

An Aiptasia Zapper!? Now Thats My Kind of Item! - Captive Aquatics: An Aquarium and Ecology Blog
Pictures of my Tank with some of the livestock

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 8:34pm CST by Monde

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sea uchin id plz

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 8:22pm CST by Charl_Stanhope

Please could you id these urchins. They in rock pools close to where I stay. Can you tell me if they are poisonous to humans and fish,if they suitable to be in a tank,what they eat? are they reef safe. There are bright red,bright purple urchins and there are 100's and 100's of them.
Is my hammer coral in trouble

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 7:59pm CST by jaybeepee

Hi guys,

I've attached a pic of my new hammer - only been in tank since sunday. I would imagine the part where the polyps have died are a result of the shipping?

Any help/tips greatly appreciated.

my params:

nitrate: 10
p04: 0.20
SG: 1.025
Ca: 450ppm

Cheers
Jason
T5 Config

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 7:45pm CST by Toolboysa

Hi all

I have got a 8 tube T5 39w light fitting. I'm want to replace the tubes with Giesemann.

What will the best config be? Planning only to keep softies and maybe LPS corals.

There are so many different types tubes is confusing me

Aquablue Plus
Midday
Pure Actinic
Actinic Plus
AquaPink

Thanks in advance:yeahdude:
help

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 7:12pm CST by jaganathan

hi friends..i have green carpet anemone. yesterday i have feed that with a piece of fish.today suddenly some brown color fluid is excreted from his month. can anyone tell me what is that.is there any problem with my anemone. thank y in advance
Snail ID plz

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 7:06pm CST by rakabos

Hi guys

Found this guy which i never put in so must have been a hitch hiker. Is it possible to ID him and advice on how good or bad he is?
Vortech MP10ES for sale: Empangeni

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 4:46pm CST by SIMS

Hardware for saleThread title:
Vortech MP10ES
Location:
Empangeni
Shipping or Collection only:
Inc. in price
Photo's and description/list of items for sale:
As the title says - Vortech MP10ES.

Maybe run for 6 weeks. Selling the nano I bought it for.

Price - R2500 inc. Shipping to your post office - add R100 to your door.
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Red Sea 130D for sale: Empangeni

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 4:36pm CST by SIMS

Hardware for saleThread title:
Red Sea 130D
Location:
Empangeni
Shipping or Collection only:
Both
Photo's and description/list of items for sale:
Hi All

I bought a Red Sea nano about 6 months ago. It took me 3 months to setup and since then has just been sitting in my lounge with sand, water and a bit of rock. I seriously never find the time to give it the attention it needs.

So its for sale - R6000

includes -
Red Sea Nano 130D
Red Sea Cabinet
2 Bags of Caribsea Black and White mixed aragonite (will stick it in a bucket)

I'm in Durban often enough so can drop it off there. Shipping can be arranged at buyers expense I still have the box for the tank somewhere.
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Christian's v1.0

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 3:37pm CST by Christian

Howzit all,

I recently purchased SweetnSours Cube he had for sale, and finally managed to get it all set up.

Some of the details:

60x55x60cm Tank
Dymax 150w MH for lighting
Reeftek TS2 Skimmer
5000l/h Wavemaker (to be improved in time)
Reef Octopus Return pump 3000l/h
Plumbing thanks to SweetnSour

I received 25kg of Liverock today, straight off the plane, of which I am keeping half for my sister who is also starting a tank. Below are some pictures of the tank and assorted crawlies I have found in the Liverock box, any chance for some IDs?
Return Pump and pods?

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 3:03pm CST by archiecrain

I have a question.

In your sumps (those of you who have them) you often create an area where pods are able to breed and establish themselves therefore feeding the display tank. Can all the Pods survive the return pump to Display tank?

I know the Skimmers are no good for the pods, but does the return Pump not kill them as well, or am I mistaken?
bio load advice

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 2:58pm CST by luke mac

hi all i have a 450l +- display tank.

The sump: holds 200L +- i have a aqua medic 1000 turbofloter skimmer, dsb, live rock, a canisterfilter with carbon and phosphate remover.

The display has 30 to 40kgs of live rock,two 3000l wave makers.
The tank has been running for 1year now! :thumbup:

i would like to know how many fish i can have with a fully reef tank of corals, more soft corals than sps ect.

Fish i now have:
1 marron clown
1 sail fin tang
1 royal grammer
3 goldies
1 peacock wrasse
1 blue spotted tamerine wrasse
1 queen coris (fomosa) wrase if he comes out of the sand(new member been a week now)
1 dusky chelub
1 purple fire fish
1 cromis

total 12
Tank falling through the roof

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 2:52pm CST by NeilSmit

Hi all

I bought a new custom tank 1.6 x 0.7 x 0.7. The tank is very heavy because of the overflow design (3layers of glass at bottom and back), I would say 150kg, the tank would take about 750l, the sump about 150l, which gives a total of 1050kg.
The only thing is, my new flat is on the second floor. Would there be a possibility of the tank being to heavy for the foundations?

Thank you
Neil
aqua medic cr1000 calcium reactor for sale: dbn

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 1:42pm CST by mahan

Hardware for saleThread title:
aqua medic cr1000 calcium reactor
Location:
dbn
Shipping or Collection only:
both
Photo's and description/list of items for sale:
Hi ppl need to sell this setup asap R3000 not neg comp carx by aqua medic cr 1000 c02 bottle needs a refil
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last of Januarys indo corals

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 1:26pm CST by Perky pets superstore

Hi all.
We still have some stunning corals left.

Brain - Beutifull colour

XL organ pipe coral
purple mushroom - R349.90

This zoo rock has 3 different types on it and is a good sized rock - 349.95

Pagoda plate corals - R279.95

Fireworks anamone - R245.00

Orange acans - R439.95

Special on green brains - R249.95

Bad pic , but nice zoos - R349.95

MTL green stars -

MONTASTREA ??? _ R398.95

Red mushrooms R369.95

Yellow and orange sun coral _ R229.95
Need to borrow Containers to move 2000L of water

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 12:38pm CST by dallasg

hi

i am needing to borrow containers to move 2000L of sea water, anyone in jhb area got 250L, 500L or 1000L bins?
Detailed form submitted: Quintonv

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 10:54am CST by Quintonv

Detailed help requestAre you experiencing any problems in your tank?
Yes
Brief Description
Yesterday i bought a new reaction chamber for my tank. I added Seachem carbon to it. After cleaning it in RO water. I made sure that there weren't any dust on them, This morning my tank was black!!! Even my live rock is black
Tank size
100x 50x 50
System Volume
Total including sump 300L
How long has your tank been running?
6 months
What livestock do you have?
Fish:

Regal Tang, Yellow Fox Face, Strawberry Dottyback, cleaner goby, red spot watchmen goby, a few blue green chromis

Corals:

Frogspawn, Blastumosa, lots of shrooms, and zoas. Green Stars
Water Parameters
Alkalinity (dkh):
Calcium: Just over 400
Phosphate: close to 0
Magnesium: never tested
pH: Can't remember
Nitrite: 0
Nitrate: 0
Ammonia: 0
Salinity: 1.025
Temperature: 26.5
What lighting is over the tank?
2x Actininc
2x Blue
2x white

Just replace all last month
Pumps and equipment
TS2 skimmer, Return Pump,2x SunSun jvp102 ,Cheato
Maintenance
I do weekly water changes of 30L
Other info and photo's.
This Morning i did a 30L water change added filter wool to the overflow and planning on doing another 30L water change tonight, i scrubbed my rocks a bit this morning.

Please help!!!! What more can i do?
Read the ffg books...

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 10:28am CST by flamming angel

Hey guys

Someone was nice enuf to give me the following books :

Marine Atlas - Helmut Debelius, Han A Baensch
Marine Fish and Invert reef Aquarium - Albert J Thiel
The Marine Aquarium - Nick Dakin
Marine Aquarium - Nick Dakin

Any one read these. It has tons of info esp the Marine atlas like a marine encyclopedia. Quite of a old book but still has lotsa knowledge.
Just wanted to share it.
Leslies 1.2 - Part 1

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 9:24am CST by leslie hempel

This is a continuation thread split from the original, the old thread is Here
Aiptasia Infestation counter measures

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 8:51am CST by Jaco Schoeman

Hi peeps...

All right - I knew that I would reach this point, so now I will need some input...

With keeping the dedicated NPS tank and feeding so very heavily (espically live brine) I have seen the aiptasia in my tank exploding lately into massive numbers...

They were always there, and there is no harm in having 1 or 2 of them, but I am facing an infestation.

The larger ones I zap with a product from Tropic Marin, but I cannot get to all of them, as some stay under my scaping. The smaller ones do not pose too much of a threat, as the NPS are quite capable of standing their ground.

But if I just leave the smaller ones to grow large untill I can zap them, then the tank will be overrun with aiptasia that will be a force that I cannot stop, and eventually they will win the fight agains the NPS - especially the gorgonians.

Now, what is the best line of attack here, that has the best guarantee of results?

Firstly, please do not even mention removing the rocks, as this cannot happen. I have sun coral babies growing all over the place...

So, I know that CBB fish work well, and aparantly so does Longnose Butterflies. I know there is also an aiptasia eating hermit crab - yet I have no idea as to how they look or where to find them.

My other problem with a CBB is that my tank is only 700x450x450, so I cannot keep a large specimen. I also have small tube worms in the tank, so the CBB might take them out too - something I would like to prevent, but if that is what it takes then so be it. I also know that some CBB's never take aiptasia at all - which is then a waste.

What can you guys recommend I use - with the best guaranted results?
MH suppliers

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 8:50am CST by Ash

Hi all.

Can you guys give me 2 or 3 companies that supply MH lights. I'm looking for a few quotes to compare prices.

The only ones I know of are Waterboy, Aquatic Depo, Exotic pets and Aquamedic.

Are there any others?

Ash
chiller quessie

Posted: February 7th, 2011, 8:48am CST by dropzone newbee

so ! i bought a monster 2 hp chiller
its been installed outside about 5 meteres from tank !
20mm piping has been used with unfortunately 3 elbow joints
problem i have is the chiller not really cooling water properly
chiller set to 25 degrees , but water in dsp is 27 ish

could this be that the water warms up within its travel of 5 meteres ? ( hard to believe )

do i need to run a larger pump from sump to chiller so that chiller gets more water in it ?

advice please

thanks